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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Subject:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> "On Course" website launched<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'>Greetings all, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'>CAST has a new website: “On Course: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education” (<a href="http://udloncourse.cast.org">http://udloncourse.cast.org</a>). This site contains a series of resources designed to help postsecondary institutions improve instruction through Universal Design for Learning (UDL). You can read the press release about the new site here: <a href="http://www.cast.org/about/news/2014-05-14.html">http://www.cast.org/about/news/2014-05-14.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Normal1 style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'>Built with responsive design to allow optimal viewing on mobile, laptop, and desktop devices, On Course focuses on the implementation of UDL at the postsecondary level in five areas: (1) Assessment, (2) Improving Institutional Policies and Practices, (3) Selecting Media and Technology, (4) Planning Your Course, and (5) Teaching Approaches. Each area contains resources that demonstrate ways to address learner variability in an effort to improve learning opportunities, retention, and outcomes. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Normal1 style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:20.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif";color:#292929'>On Course is a project of the Open Professionals Education Network (OPEN), a collaborative of CAST, Creative Commons, the Open Learning Initiative at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon, and the Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges. </span><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'>The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation created OPEN as a way to support community college grantees of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College & Career Training (TAACCCT) program, which aims to help adults succeed in acquiring the skills, degrees, and credentials needed for high-wage, high-skill employment. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'>I hope that you will visit the new website and let us know what you think of it. Please send any feedback to <a href="mailto:udloncourse@cast.org">udloncourse@cast.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'>Best, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'>skip<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'>Skip Stahl</span></b><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'> I Senior Policy Analyst I CAST <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'>40 Harvard Mills Square I Suite #3 I Wakefield MA 01880<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'>W 781-245-2212 I F 781-245-5312 I <a href="mailto:sstahl@cast.org">sstahl@cast.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>